I have now changed the VG animation to norse_swordsmen and their stats to the original ones. They now appear to be working properly against both inf and cav. They look weird indeed, with their stabbing attacks and one-handed axe wielding, but not that weird (it's not like they're shooting arrows or anything) - and definitely not weirder than them just standing there doing nothing but getting slaughtered. Anyway, who has the time to actually watch the fights zoomed in a real campaign battle ? not me, I usually stay at helicopter height :). I'd much rather have the units do their thing right than look pretty and move as in real life.

They seem a little too powerful now (they won too easily on the huscarls and norse axemen), but I think I'll just increase their cost rather than try to rebalance the whole unit roster. I just wanted to finish my Byz campaign, as I've already quit the english one (right before the climax) when I realized the billmen and DEK were broken. If I quit this one too, my M2TW experience will start to look more and more like a series on prematurely interrupted sexual acts (coitus interruptus for the latin speakers out there:))

I think I'll put the game on ice after this campaign until a real fix is released for this bug (hopefully in february...)